How to Reconstruct Publishing:

Competing Visions, Channels and Audiences.

Editorial

Competing Visions, Channels and AudiencesWith the transformation of the publishing industry in full swing, the goal of the 2015 edition of the Publishers’ Forum Berlin will be to identify exemplary perspectives and topics and illuminate the junction where strategic visions meet practical challenges and opportunities. [Read more ...]

A first announcement of speakers to the Publishers’ Forum on April 27&28, 2015 introduces a mix of senior international and German publishing executives, a literary agent and an award-winning author, as well as expert voices for discussing new audiences to the book business.

“It won’t be long before we look back and marvel at how bestselling books are produced today. The system of remote production by disparate artists, followed by their discovery by publishing houses, won’t be around forever. There are too many inefficiencies, lost opportunities, and glaring weaknesses in this system. This really hit me in Berlin at the Klopotek Publishing Minds conference.”

Bestselling author Hugh Howey, who was a speaker at the Publishers’ Forum 2014, uses some of his observations made at the conference to come up with a new concept for co-creating works at a publisher’s office: read the article.

“’Its a moral and an ethical system ‘ . Richard Charkin , in a passable imitation of the new business-like Archbishop of Canterbury , defended copyright at last week’s epic Publishers Forum in Berlin , though we all knew that he was referring to a set of trading rules which led Byron to tell his publisher , John Murray , that ‘ Barabbas was the first publisher ‘ .Klopotek’s Berlin show , over 250 strong this year , has become a stadium for opposing positions and sharply contrasted stances .

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Helmut von Berg , indefatigable organizer of this event for a decade , retires this year . He earnt the grateful thanks of all of us present in Berlin . He is succeeded by Ruediger Wischenbart and an editorial board who now know how hard it will be to improve on this .”